Issue #16 of the broadsheet newspaper publication of the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago, New York City, Boston, Canada and Germany. October 2009 articles include: Labor struggles today: A report on a recent civil disobedience action in Chicago by Laurie Rojas; Book Review: Randi Storch, Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots, 1928-35 by Ashley Weger; Rosa Luxemburg's corpse: The stench of decay on the German Left, 1932-2009 by Jerzy Sobotta; On drone music by Bret Schneider; Book Review: Detlev Claussen, Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Haseeb Ahmed.